Sam Darnold’s road to Super Bowl 60 doesn’t read like prophecy. It reads like resistance. On Feb. 8, under the bright lights of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, one quarterback from the vaunted 2018 draft class will take the group’s first snap under center in a Super Bowl.

The 2018 NFL draft had one of the most promising groups of quarterbacks ever to enter the NFL in one year, with five drafted in the first round. But only one has reached the Super Bowl. Sam Darnold was the late bloomer of the bunch, but when Darnold starts ...